"Well, look, it's a damned if you do, damned if you don't proposition. There were illegal actions that led up to this, including the transfer of company property to a private individual. At the same time, perhaps this was released when it was (now) because of the statute of limitations running out (just speculation). It's compelling stuff and protected to a degree under the guise of "reporting". The gentleman who posted it though would have been better off leaving out the part about the pilfered data and just left the transfer of information to him at "anonymous sources" and not been quite so specific about the actual "from" part. In other words, he could have presented the whole thing quite differently then he did and still had the same end result while maintaining full journalistic value and related protections. As it stands, his perfect honesty may come back to bite him. With that said, speaking strictly as a reader and historian, I love it as-is in all its unfiltered glory.
By now all of this has already archived by others, so the cat is out of the bag forever regardless of how we feel about it at this point, so we just need to deal with that fact rather than the right or wrong aspects. That ship has sailed..."
It really is a tremendous exercise in the power of the Internet (as if we needed any more validation)...
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*************************** Bill Loguidice, Managing Director
Armchair Arcade, Inc.
One of a few of my comments on there:
"Well, look, it's a damned if you do, damned if you don't proposition. There were illegal actions that led up to this, including the transfer of company property to a private individual. At the same time, perhaps this was released when it was (now) because of the statute of limitations running out (just speculation). It's compelling stuff and protected to a degree under the guise of "reporting". The gentleman who posted it though would have been better off leaving out the part about the pilfered data and just left the transfer of information to him at "anonymous sources" and not been quite so specific about the actual "from" part. In other words, he could have presented the whole thing quite differently then he did and still had the same end result while maintaining full journalistic value and related protections. As it stands, his perfect honesty may come back to bite him. With that said, speaking strictly as a reader and historian, I love it as-is in all its unfiltered glory.
By now all of this has already archived by others, so the cat is out of the bag forever regardless of how we feel about it at this point, so we just need to deal with that fact rather than the right or wrong aspects. That ship has sailed..."
It really is a tremendous exercise in the power of the Internet (as if we needed any more validation)...
Wii: 1345 2773 2048 1586 | PS3: ArmchairArcade
Bill Loguidice, Managing Director | Armchair Arcade, Inc.
***************************
Bill Loguidice, Managing Director
Armchair Arcade, Inc.